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I agree that you need to grow food suitable for the climate you are in. How does this clash with local food production? If you locally grow food that is adapted

• ars 10y ago
  > If you locally grow food that is adapted to your climate, surely that's the best solution? So what you are saying is no one should eat bread in the UK? (The UK is not great at growing wheat.) I don't need to give a lot of examples, you get my point I hope. > I have difficulty believing that eating imported pineapples in the UK pollutes less than eating local apples Do apples grow well in the UK? Do you need lots of chemicals to grow them? (Pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer, etc, etc.) Do you need to spend a lot of time (i.e. energy) managing the trees, or do they just grow themself? Importing a pineapple costs basically nothing (both in terms of energy and money). If growing a pineapple in HI uses less stuff than growing an apple in the UK, then yah, eating imported pineapples pollutes less. (I don't know if that's the case or not.) It's easy enough to tell: Just compare the cost of the fruit (per weight).